We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.
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W. Somerset Maugham Quote
“It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering, for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive.”
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